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Here's something that I've never heard of :-

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BURNS-8-STRIN ... 20d600292f

It's been on eBay for some time, as have most of the seller's other Burns (all pretty expensive). This bass is a Jack Golder built guitar (he built some Shergold 8 string basses as well). It's a nice looking piece.

Chas.

These aren't pretty expensive, they are INSANELY expensive. Divide those prices by ten and you reach a price they'd actually move at.

And check out this

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BURNS-1965-DOUB ... 20d6002933

Just seems to me like someone's seen him coming.

'What can we sell that American guy who pays way over the odds for Burns gear?'

"lets bolt this sonic trem to this double six and see if he bites!"

Seriously: http://www.auctiva.com/hostedimages/sho ... 0&format=0

Look at that! At the very least, it made it all the way through the factory, and was fully completed as a regular double six before someone bunged that trem on there. It's hanging off the end! Surely if Burns were actually going to experiment with this idea, it'd have been more sensible for them to drill some extra holes in the trem spindle, and not bother attaching the double six tailpiece, then shift the whole thing along and have it looking like a normal guitar? And that trem cover is off a Teisco Bass or something, if I'm not mistaken.

I have a picture of Jack Golder & Keith Wastall holding the guitar in their workshop.
When they were making kitchen units and still doing Burns/Shergold guitars builds & repairs.
Keith rewired my reverb pickups on my Burns orbital 12 for me.

mgeek wrote:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BURNS-1965-DOUB ... 20d6002933

Just seems to me like someone's seen him coming.

'What can we sell that American guy who pays way over the odds for Burns gear?'

"lets bolt this sonic trem to this double six and see if he bites!"

Seriously: http://www.auctiva.com/hostedimages/sho ... 0&format=0

Although that Double Six has also been on eBay for some time, I never bothered to look at it closely (because the trem arrangement was so ugly) - but now I see that six of the strings are attached to the trem, and the other six anchored to a fixed plate. I wonder how that sounds if you dip the trem...?

chas wrote:...I never bothered to look at it closely (because the trem arrangement was so ugly) - but now I see that six of the strings are attached to the trem, and the other six anchored to a fixed plate...

The fixed plate is the standard tailpiece for an original Double-Six. It's essentially a flat chromed steel block with twelve vertical pins mounted into the top in two offset rows. The pins are angled slightly towards the read of the guitar, meaning that they will each anchor a string when the ball-end is slipped over the pin.

It's fiddly and not as efficient as a through and through tailpiece, but it's at least a Burns original idiosyncrasy.

See that's the thing- if the original double six tailpiece wasn't there, I'd give more power to the idea that this is original, but with it there, it's very clear that this is just a regular double six with a Sonic trem bunged on there.

I've had a bit of a nightmare with the Double Six bridge, by the way. ALL of the unwound strings, er...unwound! Started dropping pitch and then they were goners.

Gonna try tinning the wraps with a little solder, i guess